Police Return to Savannah’s Sister & Brother-in-Law’s Neighborhood After Report ‘Walls’ Are Finally ‘Closing in’ on Nancy’s Kidnappers
After two months without any concrete news on Nancy Guthrie, it’s not surprising to see police doubling back on everything they’ve already investigated. Police released surveillance photos and videos of a masked kidnapper, after all, but were never able to identify the person. Not just that, even though DNA was recovered, law enforcement has yet to link it to anyone. And though police reportedly have ideas about a motive, nothing has been confirmed.
So news that the police are returning to the neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie’s daughter Annie and her husband Tommasso Cioni live, according to KVOA, was met with some interest. The two were the last to see Nancy alive, the night before she disappeared.
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The added patrols reportedly came after a specific issue was raised by residents. “Neighbors complained about a YouTuber harassing residents in the area. PCSD confirmed that they have also received similar complaints from Guthrie’s daughter Annie in relation to her neighborhood. The department has increased patrols in both areas due to those complaints,” KVOA reported on Monday, April 13.
Most news stations are not camped in the area to report on the Guthrie investigation anymore, with some hoping to keep the case alive and get a scoop in case something is announced. But neighbors, at this point, have had enough. And it’s hard to blame them.
Despite the community’s desire for normalcy, some believe that there might soon be a break in the case. An FBI expert has suggested that Savannah Guthrie’s return to the Today show could be the thing that pushes the needle forward. “Walls are closing in” for the kidnappers, they suggested.
Former FBI agent Jason Pack told Page Six, “Every day that passes the pressure builds. Keeping a secret like this is exhausting. … and that gets harder with every morning that Savannah Guthrie sits behind that anchor desk.”
The visibility, he said, will affect how this case develops going forward. “Most criminals in cases like this count on the media moving on,” he said. “They count on the family fading from public view. They count on people forgetting. This case is different. Savannah has a national platform and she shows up on it every single day. Every time a viewer sees her face, they think about her mother.”
And this is when the kidnappers and the people around them can make mistakes, or get antsy. The more attention, the more “pressure on the people responsible goes up.”
“Add a reward of more than one million dollars and the full weight of FBI resources and you have a situation where the walls are not just closing, but they are closing from every direction at once,” he explained.
“At some point, someone is going to have the courage to make that call,” he said. “One phone call from someone who decides the reward money matters more than their silence is all it takes to bring law enforcement directly to their front door.”
The reward for information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance stands at over $1 million.
